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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb., in, initie Application led July 1, 1918. Serial No. 452,844.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAN URAWIEG, a citizen of Poland, residing at New Salem, county of Fayette, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking Vessels, oit which the following is a specification. This invention relates to improvements in coolring vessels, known as boilers.

The principal object of the invention is to provide means for securing a cover rmly to the vessel so that the same may be handled as a unit.

A further object is to provide means for collectin steam and gases that arise from the material cooked vwithin the vessel and and particularly to types conducting the Same outwardly at one locall point where they may be received 'in a suitale receptacle.

"Ihese and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming amaterial part of this disclosure, and in which Figure l is a side elevational view showing a cooking vessel made in' accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view taken on iine 3-3 of Fig. l.

Fig. i 1s an enlarged fragmentary perspective view, showing the cover securing f" means, and

Fig. 5 is a similar perspective view showing another portionA of the cover securing means.

In the drawings, the numeral designates the vessel, here shown to-be of cylindrical construction, provided with an imperforate bottom (not shown) and a level open top 11. The cover is formed of two spaced plates, respectively 14 and 15, having between them a chamber 16, bounded by the connecting ring or band 17, which forms the side walls of the cover, the band or ring being of lesser plates, presenting an annular outer space 18, receptive of clamp blocks 20, freely slidable therein, which are held pivotally to the bail 2l by screws, pins or lil-re fastenings 22, so that the blocks may turn angularly with relation to the bail.

Ille extending iower ends 23 of the bail diameter than that of the cover have inturned hooks 2li:` engageable with rigid projecting lugs 25, extending out upon opposite sides of the vessel l0, the projections having curved lower surfaces so as to permit the hooks 24, when operated by the extending central handle 26, to pass under the projections, which obviously will cause the clamp blocks to depress the cover, holding itsecurely upon the upper surface of the vessel.

These cover plates are held together by a bolt 28 passing through each of the plates and secured by a nut 29, the stem of the bolt being enlarged into an operating knob 30 by which th n cover can ordinarily be manipulated when the bail is in such position as to allow it. l

Formed through the lower plate 15 are a plurali-ty of perforations 32, which permit the steam emanating from the substances within the boiler or vessel to rise into the chamber 16, from which it escapes in a condensed form through an opening 33 formed in the lower plate 15, the same being covered by an overhanging element 34, formed with the upper plate le, the drain opening 33 extending outward to cle may be placed below to receive the drippings which may arise from `condensation of vapors entering the chamber through the perforations 32.

From the foregoin it will be seen that a vessel suitable for coo ring purposes has been described in which the steam and vapors arising may be prevented from being dissipated freely into the atmosphere and that the cover may be, securely clamped in position in. a novel and convenientmanner.

The operations and use of the invention is believed to beobvious from the foregoing. Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

.1. In a cooking vessel, the combination with a hollow cylindrical body and a recessed cover suited thereto, a pair of lugs extending out from said body" upon opposite sides thereof, a bailhaving inturned hooklike elements en gageable with said lugs, and a pair of blocks pivotally engaged on said bail, said blocks being adapted to engage within said recess lwhereby said cover may be clamped imposition on said body.

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level open top and a recessed cover suited to pivetally Attaching said blocks tio said bail engage thereover, rigid lugs extending outwhereby said cover muy be clamped in posiward from the Walls of said body upon option.

posite sides, a bail having hook ends c011- n testimony 'whereof have axed my 10 5 timetable with said lugs, clamp blocks ensignature.

gageable within said recess, and meansfor JAN ORAWIEC. 

